The Unity in Community Experience!
Awakening Our Shared Humanity, One Community at a Time
Inaugural Launch Event: Calgary, Alberta
September 26th, 27th and 28th 2025
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A Proud Sponsor of the Unity in Community Experience!
What is The Unity in Community Experience?
The Unity In Community Experience! uses the universal power of music and the arts to bring people together. No matter our culture, age, or beliefs, we all share emotions like joy, gratitude, and unity.
Music has a special way of breaking down walls, helping us celebrate life, and reminding us of what connects us as humans. By singing, sharing, learning, and creating together, we can experience the beauty of our common ground and feel a deeper connection to each other. That’s the heart of this event: celebrating what unites us through music and the arts.
The Calgary SEPTEMBER 2025 Event
Connect deeply with a supportive, like-minded community
Experience the healing power of music and the expressive arts
Gain tools for navigating life's transitions with grace and strength
Transform unaddressed grief into renewed passion, purpose, and gratitude
Rediscover joy and gratitude in your daily life
…and Many More!
The Unity In Community Opening Night
Friday, September 26th, 2025
Uniting Heart and Purpose for a New Era of Caring
An Inspirational Evening of Music, Passion and Purpose
Featuring an Acclaimed Leader in Heart Centered Healthcare
Bruce Cryer, Co-Founder and Former CEO, HeartMath LLC
Gary Malkin, Emmy Award-winning Composer and Wellness Innovator
Join us for an inspiring evening that bridges the wisdom of pioneers in healthcare and human potential. For the first half, we’ve invited an acclaimed leader in healthcare to explore how love and the unitive field empowers the heart of caregiving.
In the second half, Bruce Cryer, former HeartMath CEO and expert in heart coherence, along with Emmy Award-winning composer Gary Malkin, will present a “Keynote Performance.”
Together, they’ll lead What Makes Your Heart Sing? Harnessing the Power of Passion and Purpose to Become a Force for Good, a transformative experience using stories, musical performance, and Heart Science to show how aligning passion with purpose can turn service into joy.
The Second Day
Saturday, September 27th, 2025
GRACEFUL PASSAGES
From Grief to Gratitude
A Day-Long Interactive Workshop to Awaken to the Fullness of Life
Co-facilitated by Bestselling Author & Spiritual Guide
Hope Fitzgerald (The Infinity Wave)
Emmy Award-winning Composer & Wellness Innovator
Gary Malkin (Graceful Passages).
As the second part of the Unity in Community Journey, this full-day workshop offers a powerful space for reflection, renewal, and the opportunity to reconnect with what matters most.
Through guided meditations, evocative music, storytelling, and experiential practices, GRACEFUL PASSAGES invites you to embrace life’s impermanence—not as a source of fear, but as a gateway to living with greater presence, fulfillment, and joy.
The Third Day
Sunday, September 28th, 4 pm MTS
The Unity in Community Celebratory Concert
Join us for a transformative evening of music, poetry, and wisdom
that transcends division and celebrates our shared humanity.
Hosted by Emmy Award-winning composer Gary Malkin and featuring a special address by Bishop Gregory Kerr Wilson, this powerful concert brings together a beloved Canadian singer-songwriter, a rising slam poet, and spiritual voices from diverse traditions. Held in the Bishop’s church, this heart-opening experience invites you to honor the beauty of our diversity and embrace the unity that connects us all.
Reserve your seat now and be part of this unforgettable celebration!
Wellspring Alberta helps people living with cancer elevate their quality of life and improve their health outcomes.
Wellspring provides a range of free programs that provide connection and belonging, ease physical pain and emotional distress, build strength and mobility, and reduce fatigue. Specialized financial, workplace, peer support and other cancer-related supports are also available.
Wellspring programs are available online, and through centres in Calgary and Edmonton, in your local community, and over the phone.
Learn more at wellspringalberta.ca.
“Gary Malkin’s musical sensibility is particularly powerful. I highly recommend Gary for the healing balm his musical gift offers.”
-Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Renowned Spiritual Leader, Author
“The healing effect of this music and these words on our mind/body cannot be overestimated… Graceful Passages touches us where it matters most.”
-Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Author: Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
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